Comments on: Prevent Disk Space size info truncation on the Finder Desktop

By: Alexandros

Alexandros — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:35:05 +0000

I am trying to do that in the greek version of MacOSX 10.7.3 (Lion) However I cannot find those strings in the El.lproj. The English “free” word is in the English.lproj but the greek “ελέυθερα” is not in the el.lproj which is supposed to be the greek equivelant. Any ideas?

(BTW no IV9 string near the “free” word in the english.lproj, and no IV9 string ANYWHERE in the el.lproj)

By: Fishcake21

Fishcake21 — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:48:53 +0000

I couldn’t find the IPV9 line string, instead i only found the IPV7, snow leopard

By: miro

miro — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:07:53 +0000

@ KLancelot – or save as to desktop then replace the .txt with strings and then drag and drop or use BBEdit.

By: tyrell

tyrell — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:04:20 +0000

I have tried this and got the file to save ok, but there is no change on the desktop. Stan-O’s method also isn’t working for me, there is still truncation. What the hell am i doing wrong?

By: KLancelot

KLancelot — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:13:33 +0000

For those having the same trouble I am, using BBEdit instead of TextEdit fixed the problem.

By: KLancelot

KLancelot — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:06:55 +0000

Hi Akaki, I thought I tried that but maybe I’m doing it wrong. I hit Get Info on the strings file and set all permissions at the bottom to read and write. Close out and try to make the change in TextEdit. It still won’t save. Am I doing something wrong or do I need to set permissions another way?

By: akaki

akaki — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:14:22 +0000

it works, you have to give permissions for read and write for all, Klancelot.
But what happen when for example I have 499’76G…69’32 GB when it must show: 499’76G, 269’32 GB, because the size of the hard drive…
Stan-O option is ok as well
And if you put the icons bigger you can read as well

thanks!

By: KLancelot

KLancelot — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:37:24 +0000

On both my MacBook and iMac, both running Snow Leopard, I cannot save the changed the “Localizable.strings” file in TextEdit, even after changing permissions in Get Info to Read/Write. I know this sounds silly but do I need a different text editor or have I missed a step somewhere?

By: Stan-O

Stan-O — Mon, 31 May 2010 21:05:28 +0000

Alternatively, in the View Options set the label position: right — no truncation then.

By: ElMajdal

ElMajdal — Mon, 31 May 2010 19:33:51 +0000

Excellent, just what i was looking for

Keep it up.